Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.